Apex

The christmas present from my parents this year consisted of us spending christmas skiing. We stayed in a condo right on the mountain so at the end of the day we could ski right up to our back porch and climb into the hot tub (after changing into a bathing suit (after finishing skiing)).

The first day of skiing (Christmas eve) was pretty crappy - the top of the mountain had blowing snow and was basically in the clouds, so we only went up there once. Some people were stuck on that chair lift for an hour or so. It got to the point where we said if it was gonna be that way on Christmas day, we wouldn't even bother skiing. Luckily it was fantastic the next day. After opening gifts, some of us took to the slopes.

The clouds were all below us.

I'm IT

Apparently I've been tagged. (I don't think it's anything like those body spray commercials!) Somehow Shea tagged me in the future tomorrow (according to her post) although perhaps I have just traveled from the future after reading it...eh..eh?

5 things no one knows about me:

1. I take board games too seriously. (Ok, so maybe some people know that one now) Maybe it is entertaining to other players?

2. I was teased quite a bit in middle school for apparently looking like a monkey.

3. When I was a little kid, I peed down the basement stairs while sleep walking.

4. I sometimes take a year longer than I should in getting up the guts to ask out a girl I like. I just get terrified about it. Here's to hoping the "we'll see" answer from a couple days ago turns into a "yes".

5. I shared a bedroom with a girlfriend for 8 months in our own appartment in a city where we knew no one but have since been single for 3 ½ years.

I tag bree and far.

@#$@!

Right now I am angry and I feel like making a post. This may be the first time I've made a post while angry.

I am angry because I just watched Babel and it was one of the miserable movies where you spend the entire time watching them make dumb mistakes and screw up their lives badly. It is all about anger and misery and horrible circumstances.

My computer completly crashed twice during the movie because the fan isn't working well and it needs more thermo conductive grease between the cpu and the fan. Rob took it apart LAST week and the case is currently open on it's side.

I'm angry I don't know more about computers and routers and @($&*@. Rob has decided to abandon us for a bit as he spent the whole weekend in Delta and we had no Internet from Thurs to Sunday. He came home tonight at 10:30pm for about 20 minutes...banging around the place being much louder than he needed to be. He was talking about how Costco hates him and he got 7 write ups but they can't fire him because of the labour shortage. How he loves this province because of it. What a ($&*#%. Apparently he will be back on Friday right after I leave.

Does anyone have thermo-conductive grease? Does anyone want to take Rob's spot tomorrow in a game of Axes and Allies? I doubt anyone will read this before the time we play.

I blame this post on #(*&% emos everywhere.

Like a Needle in a Haystack

I'm all done! Everyone's all done! For three weeks there is no school. There is only seasonal celebration (which I try and enjoy), shopping mayhem (which I try and avoid), and those damn problems with the Internet that pop up when your administrator (Rob) designs an intense server setup but then manages to somehow kill the router in the process.

Anyways, obviously our Internet is up again thanks to me (after being led through the process through Rob over the phone)!

Today I woke up in Cloverdale. I followed my brother to work and then ran out of luck. I say I ran out of luck because I then proceeded to go visit z! but she wasn't there. She wasn't working. I did a little shopping at the Willowbrook mall and went to my bank except it wasn't there either! It had moved. I jumped on a bus and figured I'd go visit Shea but she wasn't there. Finally I went to another bank but although it was there, all the ATM's were down! This is when I gave up and successfully found my house (it was still here), where I calmly decided to stay for the rest of the day.

Tomorrow I shall see if I can find my work. Oh please don't take 2 ½ hours like Friday. Stupid Skytrain.

Schnee!

Lots and lots of it. I love snow! This blog post is going to start on Sunday, if I can remember what happened on Sunday. The reason I'm doing it late is because we do NOT have internet at home. We haven't for quite a while. It's evil.

On Sunday, I went and got boots. They have come in such handy since then. Then I went home and made a snowman.



The snowman's name is Bridgit...wait...ok...correction...the snowWOMAN's name is Bridgit, in honour of a friend of mine. I will get pictures up here at some point. My snowwoman currently has ET-style ridges above the eyes due to more snow snowing on top of her.

So...then Q woke up. Yes, he often wakes up after many of us have already accomplished half of what we need to for the day.

That night there was a power outage! The only thing that didn't die was Rob's laptop. He used it as a sign that said in big letters "Doing Fine" and put it in the window. Then we watched Rob's truck narrowly miss getting killed by a large branch that fell from a tree and landed directly between two of the vehicles. We were going to leave to go to the school, where there was still power, but Rob's mom and sister randomly showed up. We chatted with them in the dark for a bit before we left to school.

At the school we used the microwave to heat up some leftover chicken we brought from home. Greg and Gordo was there but Greg was busy working on his design stuff. I helped some 2nd years solve problems in their asteroids-style games, and then the Internet went down.

When the Internet went down at 11pm-ish, many people couldn't really do their work, so we all went out to have the long planned for SNOW BALL FIGHT. There was about 20 people and the battled last until the Internet came back up. This I have pictures of (although not so high quality):

Rob got clobbered pretty bad at one point. That's a
snowball embedded in his glasses and
there was a matching one in his ear.

Greg and (design) Rob were often in the center of a ring of
the rest of us yet still managed to survive. They are
seen here with the random girl that (design)
Rob pegged in the eye with a snowball.

More on following events later...unless I get lazy. It's not like everyone doesn't know about the-skytrain-snow-problems-and-how-I'm-a-big-deal.